Communication and Technology Research

eHealth

eHealth

Demographic change, chronic diseases and personalised care demand new approaches to health and social care delivery. The safety, sustainability, and cost-efficiency of our care systems need to be improved. The application of advanced ICT and medico-technical innovations can make a major contribution towards achieving these goals.

eCare & Ageing

eCare & Ageing

With people living longer than before, but also with changing behaviours and expectations, our society and the place and role of older people in it changes constantly. Care providers, employers and civil society have to keep abreast of those changes. Supporting them in addressing the challenges arising from this is one of our core competencies.

eSkills & Work

eSkills & Work

Fostering talent is key to competitiveness and to employment. We help exploit innovation in skills enhancement, design organisational innovations and help policy and private sector clients to match education and training with technological development and evolving requirements of learners and employers.

Inclusive Society

Inclusive Society

Building a society open for everyone requires a sensitivity for justice, a creative mind and strategic thinking. We help organisations and decision makers to address the challenges of inclusiveness and develop innovative ways and tools to make society more equal.

Energy

Energy

empirica works with cities, utilities, researchers and service providers across Europe on innovative means to improve energy efficiency in public and private buildings. We coordinate large projects and offer evaluation, business analysis and solution consulting.

empirica participates in International Patient Summary...

On 15-16 October 2018, empirica was part of a the Trillium II team present at the 5th European Union Module Exercise (EU MODEX-Ro) in Bucharest, Romania. The team’s goal was to evaluate the International Patient Summary (IPS) in the context of a disaster management and emergency response exercise.

empirica pre-commercial procurement project ProEmpower...

empirica pre-commercial procurement project ProEmpower...

The ProEmpower pre-commercial procurement (PCP) started its second phase in July 2018. After three months of preparations, the first version of prototypes for a diabetes management solution has emerged.

Digital Health in Africa – Implementation Guide published by...

Digital Health in Africa – Implementation Guide published by...

In recent months, empirica Communication & Technology Research Institute in Bonn, Germany, developed a Guide on a “Digital Health Ecosystem for African countries”. It provides for well-grounded, experience-based yet succinct instructions for public and private actors when establishing holistic...

New version of the MAFEIP Tool

New version of the MAFEIP Tool

The MAFEIP study (Support Services for the Management and Utilization of Monitoring and Assessment of the EIP-MAFEIP Tool) was carried out by Open Evidence (coordinator) and empirica between November 2016 and 2017. The study facilitated the further development and use of the MAFEIP tool by members...

EDI-Net Policy paper on critical requirements for smart...

EDI-Net collected evidence that municipalities are restricted from or have limited access to smart metering data recorded in their buildings. Even in countries where metering roll-out is well progressed near-time utilisation of sub-hourly data is, in practice, often not possible to help achieve...